Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Microsoft,

Remote Desktop Connection 2.0 beta sucks. Your system for opening multiple connections is convoluted, at best. I should be able to press command-n to open a new RDC window, just as the new window function works in other OS X apps. Why is this so hard to get right? Please start over.

You’ve copied software in the past. Download CoRD and copy it. We can’t think any less of you than we already do.

Aaron

PS - Thanks for finally including scaling. You know all those requests you’ve received in the past about making the RDC window smaller? Those requests weren’t about lowering the resolution. They were about scaling higher resolutions.

Report: Man with Almost No Brain Has Led Normal Life

The condition is called Dandy Walker complex and is a genetically sporadic disorder that occurs in one out of every 25,000 live births, mostly in females.

Leave your joke in the comments.

Utterly terrifying.

[Julie Amero] was substituting for an English class. She went to the restroom, and when she returned, students were gathered around a computer that was displaying porn pop-ups. Amero, who describes herself as a total computer novice, couldn’t make them stop, and she eventually ran to the teacher’s lounge to get help. In court, school officials admitted that the antivirus software installed on the PC was out of date, and antispyware programs were not installed. A school official did tell parents, however, that the school district had comprehensive filtering and firewall software in place at the time.

Although it’s hard to conjure up a simple explanation for why a substitute teacher would show middle-school students porn pop-ups on purpose, Amero was prosecuted on the ground that she had done this intentionally. She was eventually found guilty and faced the prospect of 40 years in jail because of the incident.

The idea that circumstances beyond my control could cost me the rest of my life in prison because of some superheated sexual paranoia that fuels illogically indignant parents and abusive prosecutors makes me want to surround my house with razor wire and land mines. Considering that in Ohio, you can be declared a sex offender without any criminal conviction whatsoever, I wonder if there is any truly safe place to live where children and their parents can’t potentially ruin your life at a whim.

Gone with his wind…

A PUB regular has been barred from his favourite Dunfermline boozer – for indiscriminate wind breaking.

Management at the bar say Stewart Laidlaw “revels” in his bouts of flatulence and other punters have almost been sick after exposure to the foul smells.
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The James Street pub’s owner says the stench has become unbearable since Scotland’s smoking ban came in last year but suspects drinkers could have been breathing in the waft for years before without noticing it.
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“Other people have dropped handbags, shall we say. But when everybody’s choking and I come out with the spray and say don’t do it again, they will appreciate that and stop it.”
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“He will clear the pub out usually and he thinks it is very funny.”
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“You can’t just have one guy sitting there farting his day away and nobody else coming in.”

Dropping handbags? That’s one I haven’t heard. Oh, and that’s the farter himself in the picture. It looks like he’s letting one go as the picture is taken. But it gets worse:

“The smoking ban has raised a lot of issues. Some people are arriving in premises with serious cases of BO and you have to deal with that. “

Thanks, anti-smoking jerks!

Orville Redenbacher has been exhumed and reanimated and reprogrammed to star in ads performing bad jokes. That’s abuse of a corpse, if you ask me.